Home Health
Skilled, ordered care at home with a goal of recovery, improvement or management.
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Dementia and Hospice
When dementia progresses, hospice may provide comfort, clinical support and guidance for the family.
Heart Failure and Hospice
Hospice may help when advanced heart failure continues to progress despite treatment.
COPD and Hospice
Comfort-focused support may help when advanced lung disease makes breathing and daily life increasingly difficult.
Cancer and Hospice
Hospice supports eligible patients who choose comfort-focused care during advanced cancer.
Neurological Disease and Hospice
Hospice may support people experiencing progressive decline from advanced neurological disease.
Wound Care at Home
Skilled home health nursing may provide ordered wound assessment, treatment and caregiver education at home.
Therapy After Hospitalization
Home-based therapy can help eligible patients rebuild strength, safety and function after a hospital stay.
Fall Prevention
A home health evaluation can identify risks and help eligible patients move more safely at home.
Hospice versus Home Health
Both services bring care into the home, but they serve different goals and eligibility requirements.
Medicare Hospice Coverage
Medicare generally covers hospice care for eligible beneficiaries who elect the hospice benefit.
Home health, hospice or palliative care?
Hospice
Comfort-focused interdisciplinary care for an eligible person with a life-limiting illness.
Palliative Care
Symptom and communication support during serious illness, often alongside treatment.
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Diagnosis-specific hospice indicators
Dementia and neurological decline
Increasing dependence, reduced speech, difficulty swallowing, recurrent infections, weight loss and repeated hospital care may warrant an evaluation.
Heart failure and COPD
Increasing shortness of breath, oxygen needs, fatigue, functional decline and repeated emergency or hospital visits may signal growing support needs.
Cancer and other serious illness
Progressive disease, declining function, burdensome symptoms and a preference for comfort rather than repeated hospitalization may prompt a hospice conversation.
Diagnosis and symptoms alone do not establish eligibility. A hospice clinician and physician must evaluate the full clinical picture.
What Medicare hospice generally covers
For eligible beneficiaries who elect hospice, Medicare generally covers interdisciplinary care, related medications, equipment and supplies, symptom management, short-term inpatient or respite care when criteria are met, and bereavement support. Our team can explain what is related to the terminal illness and any potential costs.